During his 3 years at TEN, MacDonald appeared on the Late News, 6:30 with George Negus, The Project, TEN News and news specials on Julian Assange and motorcycle gangs. Hid previous roles in the UK included UK correspondent for Al Jazeera where he won Young Journalist of the Year award at the Royal Television Society awards.

There’s no evidence to suggest the views of Hughes and MacDonald were the reasons they departed. Hughes has been upkeeping a punishing media schedule for years. Eventually family beckons. MacDonald says he had been offered a US role. You can choose not to believe, but “gut feeling” is not evidence.